NSW: Police seize drugs at Sydney music festival

AAP General News (Australia)
02-17-2008
NSW: Police seize drugs at Sydney music festival

Sixty-eight people have been caught with illegal drugs at a Sydney music festival.

Police using drug-detection dogs swarmed yesterday's Good Vibrations festival in Centennial
Park .. which attracted a crowd of 40 thousand.

By midnight they'd found 68 people with drugs including cannabis .. amphetamines ..

cocaine and ecstasy.

Most were charged with drug offences and some were issued with cannabis cautions.

Another 12 were charged with offences like offensive behaviour .. resisting arrest
and assaulting police .. and park rangers nabbed 140 for trespassing.

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KEYWORD: FESTIVAL (SYDNEY)

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